Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals: (G)
Common Core State Standards
Content Area: Statistics and Probability
Grade Level: High School 9-12
Domain: Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions
Standard: Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments and observational studies
Cluster: S-IC-3

Content Area: Statistics and Probability
Grade Level: High School 9-12
Domain: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Cluster: S-ID-6

Content Area: Functions
Grade Level: High School 9-12
Domain: Linear, Quadratic and Exponential Models
Standard: Construct and compare linear, quadratic and exponential models and solve problems
Cluster: F-LE-2

What understandings are desired?

Students will understand that: (U)
• inferences are made from the data and conclusions need to be justified.
• to interpret data it needs to be organized and presented in graph form.
• a regression equation will model the data, help compare data and solve problems.

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
• How can conclusions be made from the trends in the data?
• Why is it best to organize data and represent it in a graph?
• How does a regression model help to solve problems?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?


Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to: (S)
• Key factual information: collect accurate data, create a scatter plot, develop a hypothesis, analyze data, a conclude from the data.
• Formulas: create multiple types of graphical displays, determine which type of graph best represents the data, calculate correlation, standard deviation and regression models.
• Important events and people: knowledge of the history of the immigrants, develop time lines, cause and effect of immigration, and able to make comparisons from the data models.
• predict trends based on the research.
• make conclusions from the data.
• create and present the data in graphical form.
• analyze the data.
• imagine the plight of the people and why they immigrated to America.
• reflect on the regression model to compare data and solve problems.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe